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Orange is a bold wedding color choice, unexpectedly appropriate for almost any season or style. I’ve found some fresh inspiration for incorporating orange flowers into your wedding florals. Hues related to orange can be salmon, coral, terracotta, burnt orange, amber, honey, carrot and many other shades.

I confess I have only once been asked by a bride to use bright (or true) orange flowers for a wedding - in honor of her college football team.

I find that the subtler hues of orange, like peach, terracotta or rust are more popular for wedding flowers. There is a wide range of orange blooms available naturally, and depending on the precise hue, orange is. a color that can work well for a spring, summer, fall or winter wedding.

Trend-driven flower breeding in recent years has resulted in some truly fascinating, nuanced and flat out stunning blooms for wedding floral arrangements. Statement flowers are large, typically round shaped, single bloom stems that immediately attract the eye with their beauty and size. Some popular statement flowers in the orange color range can be found in the photo gallery below

Secondary flowers are often similar to statement flowers in all but size, and sometimes lower in price, depending on the blooms chosen. Secondary flowers add interest to an arrangement with their smaller size, color or shape variation. Scroll the gallery to see popular orange-hued secondary flowers.

Filler flowers make wonderful finishing touches and add interest to the details of an arrangement. These stems typically have sprays or clusters of blooms that range in size from small to tiny. Filler flowers also tend to be cheaper in price, filling out the arrangement while staying within budget. There are many orange colored filler flowers to choose from. Find some examples in the gallery below

Height flowers fulfill a special role in floral arranging, which is not required for all types of arrangements or design styles. However, the tall or spiked shaped stem may be indispensable for certain arrangements. Given the length of the stem and the growth pattern of these types of blooms, height flowers can create very large scale arrangements, and carry color to the edge of the floral design. Scroll the gallery to see popular orange height flowers.

A major challenge to using orange is truly finding the correct hue. I have ordered “terracotta” colored roses, expecting them to have an orange tint but when they arrived, I was unable to use them because of their actual color, which was not anything close to “terracotta”. This is something to keep in mind when ordering orange colored flowers since variations of orange shades do not always look pleasing together. Another potential challenge is the possibility of overwhelming a floral design with the intensity of the color. A way to prevent this is to intentionally use smaller amounts of the color and to balance it with other softer colors such as cream.

As mentioned earlier, orange flowers are frequently used in a variety of shades other than true, bright orange. Salmon, terracotta and rust orange all pair beautifully with a variety of other colors. When deciding on a color palette for a floral design, you can opt for a monochromatic look, an analogous palette or complementary colors.

To achieve a monochromatic look, pair orange hued flowers with other orange blooms of either the same shade or a variety of orange shades.

An analogous palette consists of colors next to each other on the color. So color analogous to orange include red and yellow, and their various shades, such as pink or buttery soft yellow.

The complementary color to orange is blue, so those colors make a great wedding color palette. Darker or more vibrant shades create a bold combination, while diluted shades such as peach and sky blue creates a softer romantic look.

If you have clicked on any of the links in this article so far, you were take to the website FiftyFlowers.com. I have used this bulk flower company for many years now and consider it the best flower market for DIY couples. They consistently offer the most affordable prices for flowers (available to those without a business license or wholesale account). I also regularly use their website for initial design planning and pricing research. To top it all off, they ship the flowers directly to your door! 

If you are researching orange wedding flower options, you can search the “wedding color” tab as a great starting place, even if you plan to use a florist. But if you want to DIY the flowers for your wedding or other event, I can’t recommend them enough.

However, if sustainability and decreasing your carbon footprint is a priority of yours, please realize that Fifty Flowers (and most other online flower retailers I’ve seen) use large scale flowers farms in distant countries, such as Ecuador. 

Using local, or at least American Grown flowers is a way to lower your carbon footprint, support American Farmers and source some truly special seasonal blooms for your floral designs. If this is important to you, I recommend researching local farms in your area on the Slow flowers Directory. American Flower Farming and floristry as a whole has been experiencing a resurgence in recent years similar to the farm-to-table efforts in the food and restaurant industries. The Slow Flower Directory allows you to search for farmers in your area and provides websites and/or contact information for member businesses with compatible values.